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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

As promised, if our beloved Simpson patriarch wasn't a toon.

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This one was a bit more difficult in that i wanted the light to come in mainly from one side with a bit of back light. So all my reference had to be lit from one side. For textures i needed but didn't have this lighting situation, i had to darken or light a bit to give the same effect.

For clarification, these aren't studies of what Homer would look like if he was a real person, its just what a cartoon like Homer would look like if he kept his toon proportions but had realistic texturing and lighting. I find this slightly less disturbing than the Mario one. :) Some might feel he looks too old, keep in mind he was in his 30's 20 years ago when the show first started. ;)

I saved my texture reference photos this time and i'll post those up in the next couple days for those who are interested.

you should do either professor farnsworth or fry from futurama next. or perhaps zoidberg so that i can have a few good nightmares. i don't know if doing a crustacean man would be too daunting a task or not, but could you imagine? i feel weird now.

I like how you capture the toonish look of homer with the striking human aspect, homer personally would scare the hell outta me if i saw him walking down the street, but how about trying something crazy, like could you put a realistic Sonic the hedgehog or Megaman..? Those would be to crazy characters.

Hi there! Since Mario i was looking for your job and now i was terrified! Very good! I made a post in my personal blog at http://shablemga.com/2008/03/20/homer-simpson-real/ with link's for your page telling about your job. It is in portuguese. See you.

It is amazing that this is an artifial creation and not a photograph of a natural object, but what is more amazing is that it is not a 3D render but rather a Photoshop. How the hell do you do it? I have no idea.

I know you probably have enough suggestions, but how about using a girl for your next model (if you decide to make one).There are a lot of possibilities :p.Sexy girls from Soul calibur, or toonish-looking girls like princess peach ^^.

Great work. I realize there are a number of requests for Groening characters but Ralph wiggum, a favorite Simpsons character, whould be quite a challange. Whould adjusting homer a little bring about Grampa and more so for krusty the clown. Grampa, Homer and Krusty would make ab amazing tryptic.

It may just be glorified copy/pasting, but as another poster pointed out, it takes time, talent and dedication to do what you did. You don't just start from zero and create this excellent bit of eye candy. I truly enjoyed looking at both this pic and Mario. Thank you.

it looks more like bruce willis. but indeed you have talent. and time i may say :) hope u don`t stop. we want more. congratulations once again from romania. yeah...i know, i know.....but i`m not one of them

Hey but I agree more with the suggestions like Jessica Rabbit and Popeye. Theyre not Matt Groening. In fact I admire that you've done genres instead of plain simple characters. You've done modern cartoons and 8 bit games, do something just as diversely different... think think...

Just for the fun of it, I took the liberty to make some touches to your great Homer picture.As far as I remember, I changed pupil size, nose width and general shape, centering of the dent under the nose, changed size, color and position of the ear to match the jawline, removed 'wet' wrinkles in the eyelids, removed skin marks in the jaw, added some shadows in the eyes, darkened the beard shade, added the left cheek for the sake of geometrical correctness, made some touches to the eyebrows and forehead, and more I can't remember.Hope you like what I did to it.

Can't believe that it's JUST copy-and-pasting. I thought it was a 3D model with photo realistic textures of human skin.

As for your next portrait, it should be a character with universal appeal. Homer Simpson and Super Mario are great choices. Since I'm not a gamer, I'm not that familiar with the suggestions posted here, but I DO know Super Mario. I'm not that familiar with the Futurama characters, but I DO know Homer Simpson. This is what I mean by universal appeal. Popeye would be a good choice. I LOVE Jessica Rabbit, but I don't think she would be that much of a challenge, although she does have exaggerated bust and hips; might be interesting to do a full body rendering.

The Uncanny ValleyThere is a psychological reason why everyone gets so creeped out from these renderings. It's called The Uncanny Valley. Basically, it's a theory that the more 'human' something looks, the better we like it, until it becomes TOO real and then it starts to look creepy.Read about it here:http://www.slate.com/id/2102086

This might be a bit unreasonable to ask, but, Would you be willing to make a short tutorial on how you do this? I'm sure that would generate A LOT of interest.

you did do an amasing job, however his eyes do not look in the same direction, the pupils look at different degrees. eg, his left eye looks to the left, yet his right eye looks at the person viewing the image.

You are doing some brilliant work. Bridging the divide between the virtual and the real world. I hope you get to make a lot of money out of your talent. I can't wait to see more. What about a Sonic the Hedgehog?

You're a fucking genius man! You topped Mario with this one and I hope the next one is even better. You should come up with several different cartoon icons and make a poll we can vote on to decide the next one. Man, this is internet fame at it's greatest. Brilliant idea.

I think your next venture should be an iconic "anime" chick. maybe Chun Li or something along those lines. I'm interested the anime facial propotions with the large Iris and understated nose and lips. just my 2 cents.

Technically it's WONDERFUL, an amazing work, but aw F-- He's a disgusting abomination, just so freakish to look at, I can't wait to see Marge, I'll have nightmares the rest of my life... Oh and Mr. Burns... With real geriatric skin!!!!! Please keep this up, and if all possible lets see a hand in one of the Simpsons photos.Awesome, mindblowing, and it loos so painful to have those eyes, like Total Recall painfull... Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!

i will have nightmares of real homer chasing me around a cartoon world trying to ring my neck - thanks for that. weird to see how an enormous upper lip would really look. shaving it would be like shaving your neck. what could you do with a lip of that magnitude? the possibilities are endless!!

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